Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons : Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, Volume 1T. Longman, B. Law&Son, J. Dodsley, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G.G.&J. Robinson, T. Cadell, W. Richardson, R. Baldwin, W. Goldsmith, F.&C. Rivington, R. Faulder, S. Hayes, Ogilvy&Speare, Vernor&Hood, W. Lowndes, C. Wynne, W. Bent, J. Scatcherd, G.&T. Wilkie, J. Walker, J. Evans, C.&G. Kearsley, and H. Murray, 1794 - 1119 pages |
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... pleasure and improvement . Though it is chiefly and primarily adapted to scholars at school ; yet it is certain , that all readers may find it an agreeable com- panion , and particularly proper to fill up fhort intervals of accidental ...
... pleasure and improvement . Though it is chiefly and primarily adapted to scholars at school ; yet it is certain , that all readers may find it an agreeable com- panion , and particularly proper to fill up fhort intervals of accidental ...
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... pleasure ; and create a secret partiality in favour of that fide which he espouses . Whereas , if we entertain a fuf- picion of craft and difingenuity , of a cor- rupt , or a bafe mind , in the fpeaker , his eloquence lofes all its real ...
... pleasure ; and create a secret partiality in favour of that fide which he espouses . Whereas , if we entertain a fuf- picion of craft and difingenuity , of a cor- rupt , or a bafe mind , in the fpeaker , his eloquence lofes all its real ...
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... pleasure in depreciating what is great , and ridiculing what is generally admired . Such a difpofition befpeaks one not very likely to excel in any thing ; but leaft of all in oratory , A true orator fhould be a perfon cf generous ...
... pleasure in depreciating what is great , and ridiculing what is generally admired . Such a difpofition befpeaks one not very likely to excel in any thing ; but leaft of all in oratory , A true orator fhould be a perfon cf generous ...
Page xvii
... Pleasure recommended 36 Whatever violates Nature cannot af- ford true Pleasure 37 Irregular Pleasures , bad Effects of 51 52 52 .52 53 53 54 54 . neceffary in Bufinefs , Time , & c . - SI Idlenefs avoided by obferving effential to Self ...
... Pleasure recommended 36 Whatever violates Nature cannot af- ford true Pleasure 37 Irregular Pleasures , bad Effects of 51 52 52 .52 53 53 54 54 . neceffary in Bufinefs , Time , & c . - SI Idlenefs avoided by obferving effential to Self ...
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... pleasure on thefe happy islands . At length , faid I , Shew me now , I beseech thee , the secrets that lie hid under thofe dark clouds , which cover the ocean on the other fide of the rock of adamant . The genius making me no an- fwer ...
... pleasure on thefe happy islands . At length , faid I , Shew me now , I beseech thee , the secrets that lie hid under thofe dark clouds , which cover the ocean on the other fide of the rock of adamant . The genius making me no an- fwer ...
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affiftance againſt alfo bad company becauſe beft beſt bleffings cafe caufe chearful chearfulneſs Chrift Chriftian confequence confider confideration converfation courfe defign defire difcover difpofed difpofition divine duty endeavour faid fame fecurity feek feem felves fenfe fenfible fent fentiments ferve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fociety fome foon foul fpeak fpirit ftand ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fuppofe fupport fure give greateſt happineſs happy hath heart himſelf honour human inftances intereft itſelf juft laft leaft lefs ligion mankind manner ment mifery mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary nefs never obferved occafion ourſelves paffed paffions perfons philofophers pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poffefs poffible prefent preferve purpoſe racter raiſe reafon refpect reft religion ſhall ſpeak ſtate temper thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought tion truth underſtanding univerfal uſe virtue whofe wifdom youth